Editorial March 5, 1938 Issue

Self-Control a Great Essential

Duncan Sinclair

Probably no body of religionists could show a better record of self-control than could Christian Scientists. Instructed in the truth of God's allness, aware that He is omnipresent Love and that no power the opposite of Love or good exists as reality, the Christian Scientist, through contemplation of these and kindred spiritual truths, is able to throw off suggestions of misgivings and fear and to attain to a considerable measure of poise and self-control.

Further, the student of Christian Science is aided in the attainment of self-control by his understanding of self-government. God, the All-in-all, is the creator of man and the universe; and man, as God's idea, reflects God perfectly in order and harmony. The real man is thus perpetually under the control or government of God. As this is understood by the student and his thought is brought into conformity with spiritual truth, he proportionately is divinely governed, self-control being developed in a corresponding degree. This is self-government as Mrs. Eddy defines it on page 106 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love."

Self-government and self-control are requisite in all the walks of daily living. The wheels of society would fail to move harmoniously without them. Business would come to a standstill without their presence. Home life would become paralyzed and its beauties fade away were it to be deprived of them. And they are indispensable in those whose duty it is to take part in civil or national government, or in international affairs. Let self-government and self-control be displaced by self-will, lack of consideration, and an unbalanced sense of what is right and just, and disagreement is sure to result, with possible rupture of relationships. One of the most desirable of all traits of human character, be the office of the possessor of it what it may, is self-control, because of its stabilizing influence.

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